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Episode 163: One Zoom Cheat Sheet to Rule Them All

Jan Keck creates tools and transformational experiences, so leaders and teams can feel heard, seen and valued and create a culture of authenticity, trust and belonging.


Here’s the scenario: You’re working with some new clients, and they haven’t used Zoom before. You pull together some slides, videos and helpful pointers and send them these beforehand.

During the session, you dedicate the first few minutes to sharing features, and getting them to feel comfortable using Zoom. You’re happy with what you’ve created but then, BAM, Zoom delivers another upgrade, which means screenshots have changed. 

As we know, it takes time and effort to update your Zoom onboarding calls.. UNTIL this week!

Previous guest of the show, Jan Keck has pulled together an incredible resource for anyone who uses Zoom. As a facilitator, you can share this with your clients prior to your workshops - it will save you so much time!
This week, I hopped on a quick fireside chat and brought Jan back on the show to talk through this cheat-sheet, how it will help us as facilitators, how his team put it together, and more.

Don’t forget to reach out to Jan to say thanks for this piece of gold dust he’s brought us!!

About today’s guest: Jan Keck

Jan Keck is a community addict. He is the creator of ASK DEEP QUESTIONS, which started out as a deck of cards to help his friends connect on a camping trip and is now being used to facilitate meaningful conversations through sharing personal stories on every continent around the globe.

Jan’s mission is to help people feel less alone, so by creating experiences, workshops and programs he is fuelling the movement for deeper human connection.

Growing up as an only child he found his soul family at summer camp, in sports clubs and even politics. But when he moved from Germany to Canada in his twenties he had to re-create his community from scratch and learned that the fastest way to make deep connections is through meaningful conversations and experiences. 

Jan now lives in Toronto with his wife Natalia (aka Cookie), his son Mika and you can often find him hanging out with his mastermind group, attending community events, or camping up north.

Resources

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About your host: Leanne Hughes

Leanne Hughes is an international facilitator, speaker and coach who loves creating unpredictable workshop experiences, that predictably work.

She combines her experience in Marketing, with her education in Human Resources and Psychology, to help leaders create engaging everyday experiences - that are so contagious they scale across teams, functions and regions.

Leanne has facilitated leadership, onboarding and team-development workshops across Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Mongolia, Papua New Guinea, and Singapore and believes in a strengths-centred approach to learning and development.  She has over 14 years’ of experience across a range of industries including mining, government and tourism sectors.

She’s the host of the First Time Facilitator podcast and was a finalist in the 2018 Australian Learning Impact awards for Learning Professional of the Year.



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Episode 156: Let’s have a conversation that matters with Jan Keck

Jan Keck creates tools and transformational experiences, so leaders and teams can feel heard, seen and valued and create a culture of authenticity, trust and belonging.

In case you can’t tell, I love conversations. If my life could involve having morning coffees with interesting people, then chatting with other cool people over an afternoon champagne by the water, rinse and repeat every day x 5 days, my life would be complete.

What’s interesting is that I’m really not the best (or interested?) in small talk. For example, I don’t love going to the dog park, because the chitter chatter generally seems to go around in circles, talking about our dogs. That’s cool for a few minutes but we talk about things like what they eat and how they sleep…  

I think I’d enjoy a conversation with today’s guest in a dog park though, because his tagline is all about having conversations that matter.

His name is Jan Keck and he is a self-proclaimed community addict. He is the creator of ASK DEEP QUESTIONS, which started out as a deck of cards to help his friends connect on a camping trip and is now being used to facilitate meaningful conversations through sharing personal stories on every continent around the globe.

You can check out what he does over at http://www.askdeepquestions.com and http://www.jankeck.com

In this conversation, we chat about relationships and which ones we invest in, if it’s possible to create a sense of belonging in an organisation. We dive into chats about redesigning virtual calls, scaling connections online, and btw Jan also has a kick-butt youtube channel, so he shares his tips for camera confidence, as well as advice for first time facilitators.

About today’s guest: Jan Keck

Jan Keck is a community addict. He is the creator of ASK DEEP QUESTIONS, which started out as a deck of cards to help his friends connect on a camping trip and is now being used to facilitate meaningful conversations through sharing personal stories on every continent around the globe.

Jan’s mission is to help people feel less alone, so by creating experiences, workshops and programs he is fuelling the movement for deeper human connection.

Growing up as an only child he found his soul family at summer camp, in sports clubs and even politics. But when he moved from Germany to Canada in his twenties he had to re-create his community from scratch and learned that the fastest way to make deep connections is through meaningful conversations and experiences. 

Jan now lives in Toronto with his wife Natalia (aka Cookie), his son Mika and you can often find him hanging out with his mastermind group, attending community events, or camping up north.


In this episode you will learn:

  • How to make deeper connections and build relationships, even virtually

  • Managing uncomfortable conversations during facilitation

  • Using engagement tools to communicate better online

  • What it takes to feel comfortable in front of a camera

  • Preparing for a facilitation


What Leanne asked Jan during the interview:

  • What are your strategies in making new friends and figuring out if it's worth investing in?

  • Do you think it’s possible to create a sense of belonging in an organization?

  • How do you deal with uncomfortable moments in a workshop?

  • How do you redesign or reshape your Zoom call experience?

  • How can we become a good reciprocator of scaling connections?

  • How did you develop your confidence in front of the camera?

  • How do you prepare and get into your facilitation state?

  • What’s your advice to a first time facilitator?

Resources

Quotes:

“Challenge by choice. Choose your type of challenge.”

“If everybody is responsible, nobody feels responsible.”

“Presence over perfection”

Watch the video interview here:


About your host: Leanne Hughes

Leanne Hughes is an international facilitator, speaker and coach who loves creating unpredictable workshop experiences, that predictably work.

She combines her experience in Marketing, with her education in Human Resources and Psychology, to help leaders create engaging everyday experiences - that are so contagious they scale across teams, functions and regions.

Leanne has facilitated leadership, onboarding and team-development workshops across Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Mongolia, Papua New Guinea, and Singapore and believes in a strengths-centred approach to learning and development.  She has over 14 years’ of experience across a range of industries including mining, government and tourism sectors.

She’s the host of the First Time Facilitator podcast and was a finalist in the 2018 Australian Learning Impact awards for Learning Professional of the Year.


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